San Jose's Historic Downtown (Images of America) - Softcover

Gilbert, Lauren Miranda; Johnson, Bob; San Jose Public Library

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738529222 ISBN 13: 9780738529226

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gilbert Lauren Miranda Johnson Bob

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Reseña del editor:

San Jose is the "Capital of the Silicon Valley," the high-rise, economic engine of advanced technology. Yet it was once a verdant valley, inhabited by wildlife, waterfowl, and the native Ohlone people. The Spanish who founded California's first civilian settlement here in 1777 named it for Saint Joseph, the patron saint of the Spanish Expedition. Their farms fed the soldiers at the Monterey and San Francisco presidios, beginning an agricultural industry that thrived for nearly 200 years. Although serving briefly as California's first state capital, for many decades downtown was the somewhat sleepy commercial center of the Santa Clara Valley. A housing and population expansion that began in the 1950s exploded with San Jose's rebirth as a technological mecca.

Biografía del autor:

Co-authors Lauren Miranda Gilbert and Bob Johnson, librarians at the San Jose Public Library, have combed the extensive photographic archives of their own California Room, as well as San Jose State University Special Collections and the Sourisseau Academy.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0738529222
• ISBN 13: 9780738529226
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128